“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I just read this on Drudge a little while ago. I find it highly disturbing even more so than the ammo order. This is the Civilian National Defense Force.
I am going to formally contact my US rep and have a discussion with him or request in writing his detailed view of why this is happening and why the House of Representatives is funding this stuff. I urge everyone else to do the same.
Last week a pretty bad guy killed two cops in Santa Cruz, CA. Pictures after the event showed some kind of SWAT tank from nearby Scotts Valley, which has maybe two main streets and a population of less than 12,000 spread over many square miles.
They want every town militarized.
Say goodbye to ALL guns!
Who could these bery armed men in camo be going after?
Illegals? HA
Ruskies or NKoreans a la Red Dawn?
Nope
who does that leave?
and they want us to register our weapons in a national database.
Like they said at Gonzales
COME AND TAKE THEM.
I will also be calling my elected Pols
This sure makes me ready to register all my firearms and turn in my salt rifles and hi cap magazines to the einsatzgruppen ss...oopps I meant the DHS.
If these are going to be used for border patrol, I have no problem with it, but the cynic in me thinks that’s not the case.
Well, at least the shirts are the correct color.
The gun control laws taking place in blue states is just the beginning. Statists know they can never fully control the American people until we have no means of fighting back. I will fight them every step of the way. It’s better to die on my feet than live as a slave on my knees.
I believe the United States will self-destruct within 8 years. ObamaCare will destroy what’s left of the economy. Unemployment will skyrocket to third world numbers. Can anyone really see anything else happening to keep the USA together? And should a country as stupid and corrupt as the United States continue as a republic?
America has too many moochers to survive. Too many takers and not enough makers. And NO ONE in Washington appears prepared to do what is necessary to preserve the economy, the dollar, or the limited-government principles set forth in the Constitution.
Apparently the Sequestration budget cuts isn't affecting the build-up and arming of "Janetalia's Army".Anyone who can't see, or won't admit, that Obama is arming DHS and other government agencies in preparation for war against citizens, against people he identifies as "Bitter Clingers", isn't looking or is on Obama's side and against the US Constitution.
This is a violation of the spirit and intent of the Posse Comitatus Act . It is just another sleazy liberal end-run around the law of the land and the rights of US Citizens. Obama and his "Progressive" henchmen wipe their feet on the US Constitution and the sheeple lick their boots.
The purchase of 2,700 MRAP's certainly isn't to aid in apprehending muslim terrorists boarding aircraft. We know they aren't planning a land war with Mexico or Canada. And we know the administration doesn't care who crosses the border illegally. That leaves only one group of people as the potential targets for such a large militia - American citizens.
What is next on their Wish List? M1 Abrams tanks? A fleet of 10,000 armed, Vietnam style river boats? How about an armed DHS "Security Office" in every village, subdivision, train station, marina, factory, farm and on every street corner?
DHS is going to end up with one of the largest and best armed militia forces in the world and their weapons are all trained inward toward law abiding citizens of the USA.
There is a reason Obama is pushing so hard for the right to use drones to kill Americans he declares to be terrorists. It is only one small step for Obama to go from claiming that right on foreign soil to claiming the same authority against "terrorists" within our own borders. And it is only another small step for him to claim the right to kill those same Americans with weapons other than drones. Any republican who buys into giving Obama the authority to kill a person he himself declares to be a terrorist is signing a death warrant for the people he represents.
That photo isn’t making my homeland feel very secure.
Obama bewails the “Sequester” (reductions in spending increases), but finds plenty of $$$$ to arm the government against the People (obviously these mobile bunkers aren’t intended for immigration enforcement, since Obama just released thousands of illegal aliens).
I suppose DHS needs huge armored vehicles to haul around all that new ammo, given the flood of land mine incidents and attacks on DHS storm troopers... Can you imagine the fuel costs and “carbon footprint” of these behemoths?
Let's see... Homeland Security (an Orwelllian term if ever there was one) 'practices' in places like Miami - and other AMERICAN cities. They practice in our cities because that's where they plan on fighting. And the 'enemy'? Well, it's the people living in those cities... American citizens.
There - that was easy - and obvious...
There's more Muslims working for Homeland Security than there are Conservative American citizens. That's another hint.
Homeland Security bought: 1.6 BILLION bullets - 2.700 tanks and 35,000 drones ... to use on American soil...
When if ever will the feckless Republicans question this build up?
Now, that being said, does DHS really NEED those MRAPS? I suppose the Border Patrol might have some needs if the Druggies decide to go ballistic but for the most part, DHS is about the LAST group I would like to see getting these sorts of vehicles. Frankly, I would be fine with giving 100 to Border Patrol, maybe some to DOE, sell about 100 to some Hollywood prop house, and scrap the rest if the military really does not need or want them anymore.
When Obama said he wasnted a civilian military force as well equipped as our military did ANYONE in the meadia think to ask him “What for?”
Or are the “progressives” so firmly entrenched in the media that they rubbed their hands and said “Yesssssss~!!!”
What this means is that when you are prepping, don’t forget to include a large stash of gasoline, a funnel, glass bottles, cotton rags, and cigarette lighters.
Or are the “progressives” so firmly entrenched in the media that they rubbed their hands and said “Yesssssss~!!!”
I know God is at work here, just as He was while allowing past tyrannies. What I don’t know is our role before Him in all this. As Americans we’ve been taught to resist tyranny, even been charged with the RESPONSIBILITY to do so by our Founders. Is it wrong before God to fight to the death against oppression, even in the twilight stages as Solzhenitsyn suggested above? Hesitation could leave you in a death camp, “burning” against what might have been.
I struggle with this, since it is also clear from the Bible that surrender is sometimes the “right thing to do” before God. Hebrews speaks of a time when persecuted Christians “joyfully accepted the confiscation of [their] property” and makes an appeal to them to remember that during their present persecution. Now THAT’S a tough sell to an American!
Faith is needed, I suppose. Ultimately I disagree with Solzhenitsyn’s charge of blame. Sometimes a people are overrun simply because God has allowed it for His purposes (this would include their inability to “see” what was happening). “Blame” originates from the Fall, and from that point to now we have deserved every tyrant and yet have not been “treated as our sins deserve”. We demand there be NO tyrants. Barring this fantasy, notice that God DOES cut the tyrant’s reign short. They don’t end well: Suicide, Syphilis, Hanged upside down with their mistress in the public square, Exiled, etc.
And after death? The Judgment!
